That'll Be That About That: TeamKirith Talk » Health http://www.teamkirith.net/blog Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:44:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Things I learned in the last 24 hours … that I didn’t want to know… http://www.teamkirith.net/blog/2009/07/31/things-i-learned-in-the-last-24-hours-that-i-didnt-want-to-know/ http://www.teamkirith.net/blog/2009/07/31/things-i-learned-in-the-last-24-hours-that-i-didnt-want-to-know/#comments Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:21:33 +0000 leslie http://www.teamkirith.net/blog/?p=574 According to Wikipedia, most of the time when you get called back for a diagnostic mammogram, the likelihood is NOT that you have cancer. For every 1,000 U.S. women have a screening mammogram, about 7% (70) will be called back for a diagnostic session (though they do point out that some studies estimate this number as higher). This I am not liking so far … what it means is that I had a 93% of NOT getting that call … but I did.

About 10 of these will be referred for a biopsy; the remaining 60 are found to be of benign cause. So this means I have a 1 in 7 chance of needing a biopsy after my “further testing” next week.

Of the 10 referred for biopsy, about 3.5 will have a cancer and 6.5 will not. Whoa! Although still in my favor, those odds are not nearly as tipped in favor of the no-cancer side as I would’ve thought.

Of the 3.5 who do have cancer, about 2 have a low stage cancer that will be essentially cured after treatment. The other 1.5 … they don’t say what happens to them. Even more whoa! That means after a positive biopsy (meaning a biopsy that says you have cancer, which doesn’t sound very positive to me), you have essentially a 50/50 chance of have the really bad shit.

Things I already knew and did NOT have to learn in the past 24 hours … I am not the most patient person in the world. Waiting sucks.

Things I have been glad to be reminded of in the past 24 hours … my husband, although not perfect, can be very, VERY supportive and comforting. Not to mention provide great stress relief! ;-)

So … there is an 85% chance that I will go back to the Breast Center next week, and everything will be fine. But, there was a 93% chance that I wouldn’t have to go back, and I do … so that 85% is not as comforting as it once was. I guess I will continue to oscillate between calm and panicked for the next four days, 21 hours, and 39 minutes. Not that I am counting…

  
]]> http://www.teamkirith.net/blog/2009/07/31/things-i-learned-in-the-last-24-hours-that-i-didnt-want-to-know/feed/ 0 We’re obviously not meant to have people over… http://www.teamkirith.net/blog/2007/04/02/were-obviously-not-meant-to-have-people-over/ http://www.teamkirith.net/blog/2007/04/02/were-obviously-not-meant-to-have-people-over/#comments Tue, 03 Apr 2007 02:51:46 +0000 leslie http://www.teamkirith.net/blog/2007/04/02/were-obviously-not-meant-to-have-people-over/ Well, tonight is the 1st night of Pesach, and we were having a few people over for a seder. I say “were” because we had to cancel – Sami was home sick today. You might recall we had to cancel a Rosh Hashanah dinner because of our car accident back in the fall () . Honestly, I am really starting to think that this year has been jinxed! And that maybe we should stop trying to entertain. Sigh…

  
Mood : disappointed
]]> http://www.teamkirith.net/blog/2007/04/02/were-obviously-not-meant-to-have-people-over/feed/ 0 Nightmare… http://www.teamkirith.net/blog/2006/12/19/nightmare/ http://www.teamkirith.net/blog/2006/12/19/nightmare/#comments Tue, 19 Dec 2006 09:02:37 +0000 leslie http://www.teamkirith.net/blog/2006/12/19/nightmare/ Craig is in the hospital. We were going about our normal day, when he got a phone call saying to go to the ER or he would die. There really just aren’t words…

It’s 3:00 am now, that phone call came 11 hours ago, but it seems like eternity. His kidneys have failed. All of a sudden. They found it through a blood test that his nurse practitioner added on as an afterthought at his regular checkup today. We still don’t know much. We waited in the ER for 8 hours before he got taken up to his room. He STILL hasn’t seen a doctor. They’ve taken him off all his medicines, and are hoping they can reverse the damage. The process has been maddening.

He sent me home, so I could take the kids to school in the morning – they are staying overnight with my friend Kate. But I want to be with him at the hospital. I can’t sleep at all. Like I said, there really just aren’t words…

  
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